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I have already started to read & recording this project, and I'm quite far already. I plan to record few projects this summer, and this is first. If I don't find anyone to prooflisten, I think my brother will do it, as before.

We need to decide on about one thing.
This book has many references. If it is ok for you people, I thought I produce this as The Selfish Gene by Ricahrd Dawkins, where there are 2 readers, one (male) for body texts and one for references (female). I have already aid narrator selected for this job, my younger sister. She is an adult (22 years old) and has good voice too. I’ll ask her, and I’m quite sure she is willing to help us.
Is this okay? We’ll do this as solo project as intended, she reads only the references, and everything is done as solo-project.

And we need to decide on another thing too.
This book has many very short chapters (less than 5 minuntes) and few very long (~30 minutes). What is the best practice about this? I was thinking that I record 1 chaprer as 1 chapter as usual, but leave the long intro out. Insted use shorten info, something like ”this is a librvox poject, chapter 2”. Is it even possible to have chapters under 5 minutes?

1. If you would like to read this as a duet, that is fine. Your sister should sign up as a reader so she can be credited in the catalog. We do need to think about how to note her voice in the recording itself. In a dramatic reading or play, we have a cast list, where each person reads the name of their character, followed by "read by [reader's name]. Maybe in the first section you could use this intro:

You:"Chapter [number] of Ruhtinas. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org. Recording by [your name]."
Your sister: "Footnotes read by [Your sister's name]"
You: "Ruhtinas, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Translated by Oskar Albin Kallio (1874 - 1940) [Chapter]"

2. You may have sections under 5 minutes, if you want to put each chapter in its own section. You may also group them together. Entirely your choice.

As a solo, we already have a standard shortened intro starting with section 2. It is in the first post. You might consider reading it as:

UPDATE:
My new job at the car factory has taken all the energy. All freetime goes towards recovering from hard work. The good news is that I have vacation coming from 29th July to 6th August. And I don't have any vacation plans, so it will be a good time to finsih this project. See you then!

Please load the files into the MW when you are finished with them, and ask your brother to PL from those links. That way we make sure the links work . . . important since those links (and the files they point to) are the starting point of the cataloging system.

UPDATE:
Sorry for project delay, but my job is draining all the energy. But I'm still going to finish this, it so close to finish that it would be too big of a shame to reject it now. I have 3 days off my job at the end of September. This is my chance! So if I haven't sent the files by, let's say 2nd or 3rd of October, we can dismiss this project. But hopefully this won't be the case!